Matthieu Chazarenc - Canto II - Cançon (2021) Hi-Res

Matthieu Chazarenc, refined drummer, sideman devoted to the music of others, decided at the dawn of his forties to release his first album under his name in 2018: Canto exact echo of his feelings of the moment. He then chose for this first trip, a brand new crew, an unprecedented group, with Christophe Wallemme, grand master of fundamental elegance on the double bass, Sylvain Gontard, fine stylist of the bugle and the young Laurent Derache on the accordion, who gives here in a free and lyrical way, a new breath of the "chill box".

This choice of an instrumentation resolutely turned towards a sound privileging the acoustics, the chiseled note, the love of the melody and the song, in the listening, the improvisation, the smoothness of the dynamics, he proclaims it again. loud and clear in this Canto II - Cançon recorded with the same team, thus reaffirming the durability of this group which has united through numerous concerts and tours.

Canto II - Cançon presents twelve new pieces, eleven original original compositions including a tribute to Marcel Azzola with Place Jasmin and another to his native southwest to which he is very attached with Garona piece where he invited a choir. Sylvain Luc, a guitarist who needs no introduction, is invited on three tracks and on the cover of Plus bleu que tes pieds by Charles Aznavour, of which Matthieu Chazarenc was the last drummer.